IBM announces new software for community driven development

Bangalore

August 24th, 2007

IBM has announced its vision for community driven development and introduced
new software to help clients drive greater visibility, business intelligence and
collaboration in software delivery projects. Unveiled at the IBM Rational
Software Development Conference 2007 held in Bangalore, IBM's offerings would
help geographically distributed development teams collaborate, lower the total
cost of global software delivery, and deliver software to market faster. The new
offerings include:

IBM Rational Team Concert, beta 1
-- developed on the Jazz technology platform, IBM Rational Team Concert is a
collaborative portal designed to improve team productivity by enabling real-time
collaboration across a software delivery team. The new software is optimized for
Agile development teams in mid- and large-sized businesses and can extend IBM
Rational's change and release management solutions Rational ClearCase and
ClearQuest. In the future, IBM expects to deliver a family of IBM Rational Team
Concert offerings, and extensions to existing IBM products, that enrich the
collaborative nature of the IBM Rational Software Delivery platform.

IBM Rational Asset Manager 7.0 --
generally available on June 29, 2007, this new software provides visible
intelligence into software assets and how they are consumed in a collaborative
environment. IBM Rational Asset Manager is a registry of design, development and
deployment related assets, such as codes, patterns and tests, and allows
organizations to reduce development cost and time; securely communicate across
disparate global teams and eliminate rework with asset-traceability and
utilization monitoring; and accelerate service delivery.

IBM Rational ClearCase 7.01 --
the latest version helps improve developer productivity and security. By
managing and controlling the assets needed when developing software, Rational
ClearCase helps clients isolate data based on the location of a user. Clients,
who may have both an in-house development team and outsourced the development of
specific software deliverables, can now isolate data in a secure way to ensure
that remote teams only have access to the assets they need. IBM Rational
ClearCase 7.01 helps clients with global projects monitor these critical
situations.

IBM Rational Portfolio Manager 7.1
-- the recently announced project and portfolio management offering has a new
Ajax-based Web interface that allows team members to manage their work, submit
time and expense reports.

Meawhile the Jazz Project is an open commercial community designed to improve
team agility and collaboration. IBM announced that it is opening up http://www.Jazz.net
for IBM Rational partners, IBM Rational customers, the IBM Rational Software
Development Conference attendees, and select others in the global software
development community providing access to IBM's Jazz platform project. At
Jazz.net, customers can transparently collaborate with IBM and each other,
provide input on requirements, report bugs and ultimately contribute to the
development of IBM's industry-leading software delivery platform. To jump-start
the collaborative development process at Jazz.net, IBM has posted several
incubator projects focused on code analysis, requirements management and other
aspects of Agile software development projects.